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Nick Carter is sharing some of the struggles he and brother Aaron Carter faced after becoming famous as children. In the new Paramount+ documentary "The Carters: Hurts to Love You," Nick and his sister Angel Carter Conrad open up about their turbulent childhood with parents Jane and Robert "Bob" Carter and how Nick and Aaron's fame tore their family apart. The film shows how stardom affected each of the Carter children.
Nick and Angel are the only two surviving siblings as Aaron Carter, Bobbie Jean Carter and Leslie Carter all died of drug-related causes. Nick, who has spoken in the past of his "complicated" relationship with Aaron following the singer's unexpected death at the age of 34 in 2022, discusses their challenging starts in the music industry as child stars. Aaron and Nick Carter attend the 2006 MTV Movie Awards.
Alamy "Aaron and I have the same story, and that is the trusting of people in this world and in this industry around us. The trust thing that we both had stemmed from the world that we were thrust into. Because every time we would come across anybody, didn't matter who it was, they would always do something to prove to us that you weren't to be trusted," he explains in one scene.
Nick says that both he and his brother suffered from trust issues that weighed on them. He adds, " I knew they wanted something from me, and he knew that they wanted something from him, too. And that in itself causes this, like, vicious cycle of, like, you don't know who to turn to, who to trust.
" Nick then shares that being in the music industry sometimes requires artists to mask their sadness and pain. "I've done this for 31 years. I've been in this industry for so long.
It's pressure, it's a lot of pressure. I was thinking about a song — you ever heard the song called 'The Tears of Clown'?" he asked, referring to the Motown classic sung by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. "It's basically, I put on a smile when I'm sad inside," he explains.
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